A young British man was allegedly raped on Saturday evening at the world-famous Oktoberfest beer festival at Munich in Germany, police said.

According to Munich police, the 24-year-old guy, who has not been named, was attacked and raped by two men in a secluded spot at the edge of the festival area in Theresienwiese, where the Oktoberfest is held each year.

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Police said the victim, believed to be from Leeds in England, was urinating in bushes when one of the suspects approached him and "made it clear that he wanted to have sex with him."

When the victim refused, police said the attacker pulled the victim's head and dragged him to the ground, where a second man held him down while he was raped.

After the alleged rape took place, the suspects immediately left the scene.

Authorities are now looking for the two assailants.

The attack on the Briton came just days after a woman on her way home from the festival was sexually assaulted by a 16-year-old boy.

As they heard her cry, passersby came to intervene before the assailant could rape her.

Despite these two incidents, Munich police claimed that the crime rate at this year's Oktoberfest is down almost 20 percent compared with last year.

As of Saturday, authorities said there have been 659 crimes reported in the first week of this year's festival.

Last year, police recorded 831 crimes, wherein most offenses committed were brawling, pickpocketing, and sexual assaults.

Oktoberfest is an annual beer festival that runs in Munich for 16 days. It usually begins late September and ends in early October.

Every year, more than six million people from around the world attend the event.  

The lack of toilets has become a yearly problem in the Oktoberfest.

There are more than 1,700 toilets and urinals at the festival, but the numbers often prove insufficient for the attendees.

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